Tacitus, The Histories (Fyfe)

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Tacitus, The Histories (1912)
by Tacitus, translated by William Hamilton Fyfe

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Tacitus, The Histories is an English translation of Tacitus' Histories covering the Year of Four Emperors following the downfall of Nero, the rise of Vespasian, and the rule of the Flavian Dynasty up to the death of Domitian.

The [Latin] text followed is that of C. D. Fisher (Oxford Classical Texts). Departures from it are mentioned in the notes. —Author's note.

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TACITUS
THE HISTORIES

TRANSLATED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY

W. HAMILTON FYFE
FELLOW OF MERTON COLLEGE

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOLUME I

OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

1912

HENRY FROWDE
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK
TORONTO AND MELBOURNE

TO

D. H. F.

'The cause of undertaking a work of this kind was a good will in this scribling age not to do nothing, and a disproportion in the powers of my mind, nothing of mine owne invention being able to passe the censure of mine owne judgement, much less, I presumed, the judgement of others. . . .

'If thy stomacke be so tender as thou canst not disgest Tacitus in his owne stile, thou art beholding to one who gives thee the same food, but with a pleasant and easie taste.'

Sir Henry Savile (a.d. 1591).⁠

CONTENTS

VOLUME I
	PAGE
Introduction⁠	5
Book I	17
Book II	110

VOLUME II
Book III	9
Book IV	99
Book V	202
Index of Names	231
Summary of Chief Events

MAPS

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1912, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.

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